Example sentences of "away from [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while she tries to keep her family life together , her mother Mae-Britt , 73 , is slipping slowly away from her each day with Alzheimer 's Disease . |
| 2 | The company , which is in the process of a major expansion drive aimed at moving away from its traditional freezer centre image , made pre-tax profits of £30.1m in the six months to July 3 from £24.22m previously . |
| 3 | On the contrary , there is much to suggest that , in this election , Labour moved too far away from its traditional base ; that its attempts at reassuring those outside its ‘ natural ’ core of supporters meant it did too little to mobilise support among those who would benefit from its policies . |
| 4 | Tanabe was the author of a recent policy review which was designed to steer the party away from its traditional position of pacifism ( including opposition to the country 's Self Defence Force on the grounds that its existence was unconstitutional ) and international neutrality . |
| 5 | A package of new loans made public last week reveals that the nation will move away from its traditional hunting ground of French-speaking Africa , where it has always had a science presence , and towards English-speaking and Latin American nations and the Far East . |
| 6 | The Front 's formation the previous spring had been backed by Ferlinghetti , Rexroth , Bill Graham — whose role as a rock promoter around the Filmore ballroom was just emerging and Ralph J. Gleason , then a little known San Francisco Chronicle columnist , later one of the main inspirations , and writers on Jann Wenner 's Rolling Stone , just a year away from its first edition . |
| 7 | Just at the moment when the establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic were talking about substantial cuts in military spending , when the role of the hawkish political leaders was being eclipsed , when the United States seemed to be floating away from its international role , and new self-confident Europe seemed to be on the verge of creation , Iraq invaded Kuwait . |
| 8 | The UK government has announced plans to encourage cycling , in what is seen as something of a shift of policy away from its market-oriented attitude to transport . |
| 9 | Since WWF 's change to its present name from World Wildlife Fund it has , to quote a staffer in a rival pressure group , ‘ been trying to get away from its cuddly animal image ’ . |
| 10 | Before the sea can effect any further erosion at the base of the cliff it will have to reduce the cliff debris to such a size that it can be transported away from its protecting position at the base of the cliff . |
| 11 | The stretch pulls the bone away from its perfect-fit socket — maybe just a millimetre . |
| 12 | Suppose the smooth ball of bone had been held away from its snug socket just too long to glide easily back into place . |
| 13 | The only possible way in which a government might try to use its ability to affect aggregate demand , in order to influence the level of aggregate output , would be to introduce random movements in its policies and hence random movements in aggregate demand which , as we have shown above , would produce deviations of aggregate output away from its natural level . |
| 14 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 15 | But while the gap between the filmmakers and the critical culture could seem an unbridgeable chasm , there were people with feet in both camps who were discussing how to wrest British cinema away from its dual dependence on the stage and American models . |
| 16 | Two huge eggs , greenish-brown like the sedge , with a matt surface mottled like moss , lay in a shallow depression on the very edge of the loch , with a distinct sloping runway leading to the water , so that when alarmed the bird could slide invisibly off the eggs into a deep dive , to surface many yards away from its well-camouflaged home . |
| 17 | I walked up from his left and I could see where the canvas of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base . |
| 18 | You can not get away from its vertical rise . |
| 19 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 20 | Because of the pressure of space , I can not enter into the arguments about whether Buddhism is a theistic religion , and how far it has moved away from its Hindu parent religion . |
| 21 | Increasingly it is turning away from its relative isolation and facing towards the rest of Europe , a move symbolized by its accession to the European Economic Community on 1 January 1986 ( and in quite another sense by its debates concerning its membership of the NATO alliance ) . |
| 22 | The programme marked an attempt to widen the SPD 's appeal away from its working-class bed-rock . |
| 23 | ICI is now just one small step away from its giant demerger . |
| 24 | Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved . |
| 25 | The internal relations of the multiple ‘ voices ’ in Brooke-Rose 's parodies are considerably more complex than in the examples Bakhtin analyses ; though their ‘ orientations ’ are not always directly opposed , they nevertheless succeed in deflecting the text away from its nominal object and making the reader aware of the devices they use . |
| 26 | Australia , on the other hand , has moved rapidly away from its original location on the edge of Pangaea and it has the lowest mean elevation of the major continents . |
| 27 | Hundreds of privately owned aircraft at Tamiami Airport were blown over and on top of each other , a parked DC–6 disappeared completely and was found over a mile away from its tie-down point on the Airport . |
| 28 | Metre , a linear , literary artefact — and a mental abstraction — has the power to " tilt " language-material away from its underlying phonology . |
| 29 | Not only was Liz looking forward to her new life in the United States , but also to living well away from her future mother-in-law . |
| 30 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |